Wow. You are one of the few people here to have recognised the original intent of the Electoral College. For sure, it got morphed into something else when political parties began to appear. I always wonder if he founding father had put a few more tiers between the communities and the state legislature would the electoral college kept the parties away. But that was back in the days when maybe 5% of the state's population were allowed to vote.

When Mr . Bush 2 was on that aircraft carrier promising democracy in Iraq in six months, I said "That aint' gonna happen." That administration had a naive expectation of that region. My take is that this administration was naive first before the corruption.

I left Canadian politics when I realized how dysfunctional it was. WHile my party was fairly unfied on the outside with a strong leader, there was all sorts of infighting and posturing to be close to that leader. Motivation for public service was all wrong. This dysfunction spills into governance and general society. Then a dyfunctional society elects more dyfunctional politicians.

The Gstan and Hstan parody is about how western democracy leaves issues to fester until they become too big to handle. Under the current system, it's kind of hard for politicians to put their eyes on these small sores when they are preoccupied with the re-election.